| Vocabulary | Hubble Trouble, or Tesla? | Invention Intention - Reading Comprehension | Tone and Diction: True or False, Matching Diction with Tone | Dashes and Ellipses - Tell which punctuation mark is being used accurately | 
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					  What is an outcry?					 
					 “A person or the public’s strong disapproval and anger toward something” | 
					  What is Hubble?					 
					 “…on April 25, 1990, it had been almost cancelled at least twice and then delayed following the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in 1986.” | 
					  What is a telescope, Hubble Telescope?					 
					 In 1946, Lyman Sptizer Jr had a dream that THIS would float in space above the atmosphere, and we’d be able to see all the stars in space. | 
					  What is diction?					 
					 Word choice | 
					  What is a dash?					 
					 -- | 
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					  What is dismay?					 
					 “An emotion of anxiety, disapproval and disappointment” | 
					  What is Hubble?					 
					 The agency’s administrator, Sean O’Keefe, cancelled what was to be the final mission on the ground that it was too risky. | 
					  What is a mirror, misshapen mirror, or focus?					 
					 It was a mistake on THIS that led to blurry pictures from the Hubble, and to the dismay of NASA engineers. | 
					  What is tone?					 
					 Author's opinion or attitude | 
					  What is an ellipsis?					 
					 ... | 
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					  What is controversy?					 
					 “A dispute from people with opposing views” | 
					  What is Tesla?					 
					 “This rivalry was referred to as the “War of the Currents.” | 
					  What is astronauts, “Hubble Repairman,” Hubble Astronauts?					 
					 Even though in 1999 four of six gyroscopes (that keep the telescope pointed) failed, THESE PEOPLE worked to successfully replace them. | 
					  What is true?					 
					 c.	True/False: The author maintains a wondrous tone in the following passage: “In perhaps its most iconic image, called “Pillars of Creation,” the Hubble recorded baby stars burning their way out of biblical-looking mountains of gas and dust in a stellar nursery known as the Eagle nebula.” | 
					  What is an ellipsis?					 
					 Which punctuation mark is being used correctly? I wonder… is there life—in other solar systems? | 
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					  What is dismay?					 
					 It didn’t look like Hubble was going to be able to launch into space, to the public’s ___________. | 
					  What is Hubble?					 
					 Behind the scenes… engineers were working on ways to save… by sending robots to work on it, perhaps. | 
					  What is 44 years?					 
					 From dream in 1946 to launch in 1990, it took the Hubble Telescope THIS MANY YEARS before it was launched into space. | 
					  What is an optimistic, hopeful, promising, proud tone?					 
					 The author's tone is...________??? “When Hubble was finally deployed, NASA’s spinmasters were instantly at the top of their game, hailing it as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.” | 
					  What is a dash?					 
					 Which punctuation mark is being used correctly?  Wow—that’s awesome… | 
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					  What is outcry?					 
					 Edison sparked a(n) _____________ from Tesla when he decided not to pay Nikola for the work he had done; therefore, Tesla left. | 
					  What is Hubble?					 
					 “…that big mirror would up misshapen, polished four-millionths of an inch too flat…” | 
					  What is a dash?					 
					 Which punctuation mark is being used correctly? To win… you have to practice—that’s how you get better! | ||